Arrival of Alain Delon at the funeral of Jean Paul Belmondo at Abbey of Saint Germain des Prés… #JeanPaulBelmondo

Separated at birth

Finally got around to watching WINTER’S BONE, prompted by @EddieMuller mentioning it on @NitrateVille. Proof that noir doesn’t have to be set in the city.

NitrateVille Radio Episode 75: @EddieMuller on Dark City plus "a free-flowing conversation about famous and obscure noirs that is probably the most anyone has ever talked about John Payne on a podcast." @NitrateVille #TCMParty @tcm @Running_Press

NitrateVille is pleased to announce that we are the first sponsor of National Silent Movie Day, September 29: If you haven't heard, I talked to two of the people behind it here:

New episode! @NoirAlley host @EddieMuller walks us into the Dark City of noir as we talk cult faves and deeper meanings. Plus: Silent Movie Day is Sept. 29

If TCM changes its approach, it'll be like that time NitrateVIlle changed its devotion to old movies...

Reviews of two upcoming Universal silents from @kinolorber, one long-awaited, one not awaited by anyone but fun all the same:

If you miss the experience of seeing silent films properly presented theatrically as much as I do you'll want to hear the great @puffinsteve discuss his wonderful new album of music drawn from his accompaniments to silent films on the @NitrateVille podcast

They fixed it! Much better: @criterion

Alternative covers from Criterion

Lots of people bashing @Criterion cover for Citizen Kane who obviously don't get the reference to... the opening title of Citizen Kane:

New episode! Stars, feature films, even calling it a "studio"—Andrew Erish argues in his new book that we owe it all to forgotten Vitagraph. Plus @silentfilmmusic on Edward Everett Horton in silent comedies and @puffinsteve plays music for silent sirens

TIL today: in the recent Blandings BBC series, theHon. Galahad Threepwood was played by an actor with the spectacularly Wodehousian name of Julian Rhind-Tutt.

New episode! Il Cinema Ritrovato will be live in Bologna and online, and I talk to silent film curator Marianne Lewinsky about the rare films to be shown (like this, found at Gosfilmofond). Plus: veteran distributor Kit Parker marks 50 years in the biz.

Review of a very strange early talkie now on blu-ray:

How are those new Little Rascals/Our Gang blu-ray restorations from @ClassicFlix? More gorgeous than you ever thought they could be:

New episode! Silent film showings with live music are back all around the country. Talking to @jeffrapsis (New England) and Rodney Sauer (Colorado). And @lisasteinhaven on the first world-famous comedian, Max Linder.

Reviews of new discs of prewar German films from @kinolorber, including "the world's only romantic triangle-slash-epidemiology intrigue thriller musical":